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A bag with $10,000 sits 20 miles away, and the fastest way to get it is to walk one mile the opposite direction to grab a car. Multimillionaire Dan Henry says sometimes you have to move away from what you want to get it faster.
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Multi-millionaire entrepreneur Eric Spofford reveals how hiring people smarter than him helped grow his company from $25 million to $55 million in revenue while working fewer hours “At 25 million, I'm working 12, 14 hour days. At 55 million gross annual making $1 million a month, I'm on my boat doing nothing.” “The team is running the business.”
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Multimillionaire Dan Henry explains why selling a $100 product to someone broke is harder than selling $10,000 to someone rich. The broke buyer shows up with endless questions, while the rich buyer just sends the money. If you can solve their problem and they know it, they pay you and let you do your job.
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Billion-dollar jewelry brand founder Kendra Scott reveals how hiring the wrong leader set her business back nearly two years “I hired on a resume, and I brought a leader within our organization that was a poison. And it probably took me two years off of where I could have been.” “The best people on paper are not always the best people for your business.”
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Bloom co-founder Greg LaVecchia reveals the moment he questioned everything about success after seeing a Domino's delivery driver happier than him while he was driving his dream McLaren. “I'm in my dream car. I'm in a McLaren.” “And he's having the time of his life fucking delivering pizzas.” “What am I doing wrong here?”
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People bail on a trailer the second they see something they dislike, but almost nobody walks out of a movie they bought a ticket for. Multimillionaire Dan Henry runs paid webinars for exactly that reason, because people who pay, pay attention.
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Einstein of Wall Street, Peter Tuchman, reveals how technology shrank the New York Stock Exchange trading floor from over 7,000 people to just 700. “Technology came along like any industry, and it kind of outsourced human beings. I can send out a thousand orders in four seconds on a machine.”
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Everyone says they know their worth, but it means nothing if you can’t get other people to see it. Dan Henry figured out young that improving his worth was only half the job. The other half was communication, because someone worse than you will win the sale if they explain it better.
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9-figure entrepreneur Tony Cuccio reveals why he never flew first class, choosing instead to give the money to his mother. “I promised my mother 50 years ago that the difference between coach ticket and first class. As soon as I landed, I would send you the money.” “Every time she got a 5 or $6000 check, even though my neck was hurting, it gave me more gratification to help my mother.”
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Delivering pizza in Chicago, he got sent back to the store for something he forgot and then got stiffed anyway. He’s thankful for that customer today, because that night is why he got rich. Multimillionaire Dan Henry says it was the moment he realized nobody is coming to save you. You can’t rely on anyone, so you have to take control of your life.
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Former Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes reveals the real reason Blockbuster lost to Netflix wasn't simply that it failed to embrace streaming. “We bought a company called Movie Link. We changed the name to Blockbuster On Demand. And Netflix is still doing DVDs by mail at this point.” “2008 Lehman Brothers collapses… All of a sudden I got a call from Google. Deal's off.”
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